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Media targeting women roughly 18-40

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Ristorante Paradiso

7.24

Description:

When Nicoletta was a little girl, her mother, Olga, abandoned her and ran off to Rome to remarry. Now, 15 years later and a young woman, she travels to Rome with the intention of ruining her mother's life. She tracks Olga down to a restaurant called Casetta dell'Orso, but the second Nicoletta steps through its door, everything changes. It's a peculiar place staffed entirely by mature gentlemen wearing spectacles, and like their clientele, she is helpless against their wise smiles and warm voices. Before Nicoletta realizes it, her plans for vengeance start to fade, and she's swept up in the sweet romance of everyday Italian life. (Source: Right Stuf)
Type

TV

Episodes

11

Ep.Length

22 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2009-04-09

Chihayafuru 2: Waga Mi Yo ni Furu Nagame Seshi Ma ni

6.97

Description:

The Mizusawa Karuta Club prepares for the cultural festival.
Type

OVA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

22 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2013-09-13

Super Seisyun Brothers

6.73

Description:

The story involves two pairs of teenage elder sister and younger brother, the Shinmoto's who are a bit narcissistic and the Saitou's who look a bit mysterious. It follows their everyday life in school and at home. (Source: MAL News)
Type

TV

Episodes

14

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

All Ages

Status

finished

Aired

2013-09-14

number24

(number24)

6.7

Description:

The college rugby story centers on Natsusa Yuzuki, who expects to be an ace on the rugby team when he enrolls in college. However, he is no longer able to play rugby due to certain circumstances. Ibuki Ueoka is an older fellow student who quit rugby. Yasunari Tsuru is a younger student who finds Natsusa disagreeable. Yuu Mashiro is a younger student who admires and follows Natsusa. Seiichirou Shingyou is Natsusa's close childhood friend. Together, they compete in the Kansai university rugby league. (Source: Anime News Network)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2020-01-08

Gokusen

(The Gokusen)

7.36

Description:

Kumiko Yamaguchi is smart, enthusiastic, and ready to start her dream job as a math teacher at Shirokin Academy. But as her first day opens on atrocious students and cowering teachers, Kumiko realizes that the all-boys high school is a cesspool of delinquents with no intention of improving themselves. However, what her rowdy students don't know is that behind her dorky facade, Kumiko is the acting head of a powerful yakuza clan, and she has the skills to prove it! Capable of overpowering even the strongest of gangsters in seconds, Kumiko must keep her incredible strength and criminal influence a secret in order to keep her job. Unfortunately, with the vice principal constantly trying to get her fired and Shin Sawada, the leader of her class of delinquents, suspecting she's stronger than she lets on, Kumiko has a difficult teaching career ahead of her. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Type

TV

Episodes

13

Ep.Length

23 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2004-01-06

Honey and Clover Specials

(Honey and Clover Specials)

7.68

Description:

Two side stories: Chapter L (or chapter 25) about Lohmeyer/Romaiya senpai. Chapter F (or chapter 26) about Miwako finding ways to make fun of Yamazaki. (Source: momento)
Type

special

Episodes

2

Ep.Length

22 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2005-12-23

Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi

(The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague)

7.35

Description:

Himuro-kun is a living descendant of the Snow Woman from Japanese folklore. But anytime he's around his eccentric yet kind colleague, Fuyutsuki-san, he totally freezes up! Despite the snowstorm of love that rages on in his heart, and her complete cluelessness, will he take a step forward or stay frozen in place?
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

finished

Aired

2023-01-04

Jingai-san no Yome

5.68

Description:

Hinowa Tomari, a completely ordinary high school boy, is summoned by his homeroom teacher one day and informed that he's been selected to become the wife of a mysterious creature called Kanenogi. Despite their uncertainty, the new couple registers their marriage... and starts a surprisingly happy new life together?! And thus the sugary-sweet married life of the soft, fluffy Jingai-san and the ordinary high school boy begins! (Source: Crunchyroll)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

3 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2018-10-03

Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu.

(A Destructive God Sits Next to Me)

6.48

Description:

The story follows Seri Koyuki, a high school student who tries to avoid strange people because he knows he will just end up being the the straight man to their antics. Enter Kabuto Hanadori, Koyuki's classmate who has chuunibyou (second-year middle school syndrome) and claims his eyepatch seals his god of destruction alter ego. Everything about Hanadori exudes the need for a straight man to keep him in check, and sure enough Koyuki is drawn in. (Source: Anime News Network)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2020-01-11

Saiyuuki Reload Blast

(Saiyuki Reload Blast)

7.07

Description:

At last, the Sanzou Party has arrived in India. In this foreign land, where the anomaly's influence runs rampant, their battles only heighten in their violence. And also awaiting them is their tragic fate from 500 years ago— What will they find at the end of their long and treacherous journey?
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

23 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2017-07-05

Nodame Cantabile OVA 2

7.53

Description:

An anime-original story written by Ninomiya Tomoko, this is an extra episode that falls between the end of Nodame Cantabile (Finale) and Nodame Cantabile Opera-hen. It's spring. Nodame is getting very close to graduating from the Conservatoire and Chiaki is keeping himself busy professionally.
Type

OVA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

11 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2010-04-26

Hatenkou Yuugi

(Hatenkou Yugi)

6.87

Description:

"See the world" With these words, Rahzel, the daughter of a rich family, is kicked out of her house and sent on her journey. Along the way she meets up with Heat and Alzeid, two men with very different personalities but very similar journeys. Rahzel is a clever, stubborn, and confident girl, who, with the powers of her magic and mind helps the people she runs into on her journey to discover the world.
Type

TV

Episodes

10

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2008-01-05

Nodame Cantabile Special

7.25

Description:

Special lesson about Mine, Masumi, Chiaki and Nodame's travel to Nagano.
Type

special

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

15 Min

Rating

All Ages

Status

finished

Aired

2008-02-16

Nodame Cantabile OVA

7.36

Description:

A 20-minute special centering around the life of Yukihisa Matsuda in Paris with his jealousy of Chiaki who is now a successful conductor also working in Paris.
Type

OVA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

21 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2009-08-10

Tomie

6.36

Description:

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie. (Source: VIZ Media)
Type

special

Episodes

2

Ep.Length

10 Min

Rating

17+ Violence, Profanity

Status

finished

Aired

2018-04-27

Hakuouki Movie 1: Kyoto Ranbu

(Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ Wild Dance of Kyoto)

7.67

Description:

Chizuru Yukimura has come to Kyoto looking for her father, a doctor who has gone missing. While there, she witnesses a fight between an Oni and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody, the Shinsengumi debates on what to do with Chizuru, when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor for whom they are also looking. The Shinsengumi then take Chizuru along on their search after the missing doctor, from adventure to adventure. (Source: ANN)
Type

movie

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

95 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2013-08-24

Hakuouki Sekkaroku

(Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ A Memory of Snow Flowers)

7.62

Description:

This OVA takes place in between episodes 8 and 9 of the first season of Hakuouki. Yukimura Chizuru goes on a reconnaissance mission in Shimabara as a geiko for the Shinsengumi. Each episode unfolds the events of the days leading up to, during, and after the operation. It intermittently reveals each captain's involvement as well as that of a few demons in the affair. Each individual episode primarily focuses from the third person perspectives of: Okita Souji, Saito Hajime, Harada Sanosuke, Toudou Heisuke, Hijikata Toshizo, and Kazama Chikage.
Type

OVA

Episodes

6

Ep.Length

23 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2011-08-05

Otona Joshi no Anime Time

7.36

Description:

A series of animations based on prize-winning short stories for women.Kawamo wo Suberu Kaze (January 7, 2011) In the story, 33-year-old Kanazawa native Noriko had decided long ago not to accept an ordinary, provincial life for herself. So, she had gone to college in Tokyo, worked on her own, married a man at an elite trading firm, and had a child. She has just returned home from five years abroad with her husband and four-year-old son. However, she senses a large emptiness in her heart since coming back. Moreover, there is a man who shares a big secret with Noriko.Yuuge (March 10, 2013) Mimi, a wife in her late 20s, leaves her family and begins living with a young man.Jinsei Best 10 (March 17, 2013) Hatoko, a business woman, faces her upcoming 40th birthday and reunites with the person with whom she shared her first kiss in middle school, over two decades ago.Dokoka Dewanai Koko (March 24, 2013) A 43-year-old housewife gets a glimpse of a complicated relationship between a mother and a daughter. (Source: ANN)
Type

special

Episodes

4

Ep.Length

25 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2011-01-07

Hakuouki Movie 2: Shikon Soukyuu

(Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky)

7.67

Description:

Second part of two Hakuouki movies.
Type

movie

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

87 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2014-03-08

Karneval

7.18

Description:

DVD bundled with the limited edition of the 10th volume of the manga, previewing the upcoming TV anime and including footage that will not be used in the series.
Type

OVA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

5 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2012-10-25

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